Amazon AWS doesn’t allow root access by default on the OS level. Even though this is for recommended for security purpose, you may need to enable it for some high level operations such as conversion to OVA or VMware etc.
Environment
- Amazon EC2
- Ubuntu 10.X (Should work with other linux versions too)
How to
- Open SSH port from the Security Group
- Enable Password Authentication
PasswordAuthentication yes
- Change PermitRootLogin option
PermitRootLogin without-password
to
PermitRootLogin yes
- Comment the below line with # to Disable StrictModes
#StrictModes yes
- Delete authorized_keys
mv /root/.ssh/authorized_keys /root/.ssh/authorized_keys-disabled
- Restart SSH service
/etc/init.d/ssh restart
- Set root password
[root@awsadminz ~]# passwd Changing password for user root. New password:
Now you can login to the server with the root username and password
ssh -l root IP_ADDRESS -v
